Home Health Agencies
MS PAULA M HOWANIEC (PaulamH(AT)prodigy.com)
Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:11:49, -0500
My home health agency recently terminated my care due to a lack of
available nurses. I called 22 other agencies and they said they had
no nurses to staff my case. One agency even refused to accept me as
a client because Medicaid is funding for my care and the
reimbursement rate is too low!!! Finally one agency took my on as a
client. They sent 2 nurses out to work for 3 days. The first nurse
refused to do some things that I wanted done and the second nurse
refused to transfer me out of bed! The agency then called me and
told me I would have to stay in bed!! Then they said I would have to
"change" my routine to accomodate the nurses!! I feel my rights have
been violated. Any advice?